SSD, i-RAM and Traditional Hard Disk Drives. Page 15

In this article we are going to introduce to you two solid state drives from Samsung and a unique data storage solution from Gigabyte aka i-RAM. Let check out their performance compared to that of conventional hard disk drives.

Performance in PCMark Vantage

Finally, we’ll show you the results of the drives in the recently released PCMark Vantage. Compared with the previous versions, it has become more extensive and more up-to-date as its overall orientation is at Windows Vista. We haven’t yet noticed its results to disagree with reality. You can rad more about this testing suite in our article called PCMark Vantage: New Complex System Performance Benchmark. We, however, will only discuss briefly the following new test modes:

Windows Defender (the disk is under multi-threaded load, one of the threads scanning files)